Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries: From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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Page xlvii - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Page cxi - SIR JOHN FROISSART'S PREFACE TO HIS CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, 6cc. I HAT the honourable enterprises, noble adventures, and deeds of arms, performed in the wars between England and France, may be properly related, and held in perpetual remembrance — to the end that brave men taking example from them may be encouraged in their well-doing, I sit down to record a history deserving great praise...
Page 88 - Edward, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Acquitaine, to all by whom these present letters shall be seen and heard, greeting.
Page civ - En lieu de May, d'un loyal coer que j'ay, De quoi que foit, &c.
Page 45 - ... weak and empty, they place this plate over the fire, mix with water their oatmeal, and when the plate is heated, they put a little of the paste upon it, and make a thin cake, like a cracknel or biscuit, which they eat to warm their stomachs : it is therefore no wonder that they perform a longer day's march than other soldiers.
Page xviii - His moft ufual occupation, in that time, was to amufe Gafton, after his fupper, by reading to him the romance of Meliador, which he had brought with him. Every evening he repaired to the caftle at midnight, which was the hour the Count fat down to table, and none dared to interrupt the reading. Gafton himfelf, •who liftened with the greateft attention, •only fpoke to afk queftions concerning the book ; and he never fent him away, before he had made him drink all the D 3 wine wine which had remained...
Page 75 - In visage was he some deal gray, And had black hair, as I heard say ; But then of limbs he was well made, With bones great and shoulders braid, His body well made and lenzie, As they that saw him said to me. When he was blyth he was lovely, And meek and sweet in company ; But who in battle might him see, Another countenance had he ; And in his speech he lispt some deal, But that set him right wonder well.
Page i - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Page 54 - ... that night. The third day they marched in the same manner; but many were ignorant where they were going, nor had they any intelligence of the enemy. They continued their route the fourth day in this order; when, about three o'clock, an esquire, galloping up hastily to the king, said, "Sire, I bring you news of the Scots: they are three leagues from this place, lodged on a mountain, where they have been this week, waiting for you. They knew no more where you were than you did of them: and you...
Page xix - ... and even in Spain, from the time of the battle of Poitiers, at which period he firft bore arms. Although he applied himfelf, without relaxation, to collect hiftorical memoirs, Froiflart gave, however, fome moments to poetry. We have a paftoral by him, which he feems to have compofed in the county of Foixi, in honour of Gafton Phoebus. He fays, that being ' En beau Pre vert et plaifant Par deflus Gave la riviere Entre Pau et Ortais le'ant,' he-faw fhepherds and fhepherdefles who were converting...